TY - BOOK AU - Plato AU - Jowett,Benjamin TI - Ion AV - PA PY - 1999/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Classical literature KW - Homer. Iliad KW - Poetics -- History -- To 1500 KW - Aesthetics, Ancient N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_(dialogue); Release date is 1999-02-01; Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Ion" by Plato is a dialogue written in ancient Greece. In this short work, Socrates questions Ion, a professional rhapsode who performs and lectures on Homer's poetry. Their conversation explores a provocative question: does Ion's skill come from genuine knowledge and artistic technique, or from divine possession? Through pointed questioning, Socrates challenges Ion's claims of expertise, suggesting that poets and their performers may be inspired vessels of the gods rather than masters of craft—a conclusion the rhapsode resists accepting. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1635 ER -